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“Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.”

Want Important Dream Important Things Size

Book:Ghost Boy

Source: Ghost Boy

“No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.”

Country Size Patriotism One Love Eminence

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.”

Ifs Trying Company Feet Models Shoes Size Fantastic Wacky Nike Headquarters

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.”

World Wells Made God Bigs Would Be Night House Water Darkness Five Feet My Family Ears Size Lakes Bike Corn Mist Supper Lake Wobegon

Book:Lake Wobegon Days

Source: Lake Wobegon Days

“The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.”

Problem Purpose Size Paralysis

Book:Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.”

Thinking Men Moments Might Form Belief Nations Destiny Growing Goes On Profound West Size Conviction Ran Shock Subconscious Fury

Author:Bruce Catton

“In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.”

Way Writing Art Hard Form Art Is Size Hard Times Length Feds Shelves Machinery Surviving Demeaning Shelf Life

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.”

Children Age Animal Size

Book:tha naked ape

Source: tha naked ape

“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”

Knows Children Persons Helping Jobs Overcoming Size Versions Someday Disability Disabled Salmon Inexperience

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.”

Mind Looks Kind Hard Color Painting Size Drawing

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.”

Ifs Way Whole Government Today Failing Risk Ready Size Graves Welfare Dedicated Isolated Cradle Removal

Author:Shirley Temple

“Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.”

Years Children Different Form College Disease Size Treated Departure Benign

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.”

Size Receiving Vessel

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.”

Believe Used Advantage Size Ibm

Author:Lou Gerstner

“Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.”

Made Real Funny America Car Humorous Weight Size Characteristics Fuel Iron Efficiency Detroit Chunks Aircraft Carrier Plymouth Aircraft Carriers Fuel Efficiency

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.”

Inspirational Lying Size Factors Propaganda Definite Media Propaganda War Propaganda

Author:Adolf Hitler

“[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or love; and these are qualities which impress me far more than size does.”

Thinking Feels May Littles Doe Science Heaven Stars Quality Importance Size Humble Impress Vastness

Author:Frank P. Ramsey

“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.”

World Different Dies Water Animal Sun Walking Moon Distance Size Vegetables Being There Star Gazing Flourishing One Direction Collision

Author:Democritus

“Your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.”

Giving Friendship Size Pot Belly

Author:Bobby Bare

“I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.”

Wife Bigger Size My Wife Christmas Ran Certificates

Author:Milton Berle

“Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.”

Care Cities Size Friendly Continents San Francisco Acquaintance Hearted Inspection American Cities

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.”

Cities Industry Size Assets San Francisco Disadvantages Metropolis

Author:Jack Kenny

“I don’t want to get too detailed into it, but when you’re a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you’re a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.”

Ifs Want Running School Type High School Athlete Size Runners Running Back Good Athlete Good High School

Author:Barry Sanders

“In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.”

Littles Bits Fire Taste Little Bit Fingers Size Palms Snail Beetles Really Pretty

Author:Tim Cahill

“I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.”

Hands Feet Huge Shoes Size Hands And Feet

Author:Ellen Barkin

“The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.”

Sky Ignorance Pure Size Wide Length

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.”

Nature Numbers Cutting Feet Size Inches Ploy

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“Mathematics is the language of size.”

Language Mathematics Size

Author:Lancelot Hogben

“In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.”

Two Three House Majors Europe Connections Towns Size London Germany Halls Concerts Unusual Dozen Opera Orchestra Fifth Very Deep Acoustics Opera House House Music

Author:Jeffrey Tate

“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.”

“The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.”

Reason Dies Family Members Raises Size Debt Budgets Family Members National Debt

Author:Matt Taibbi

“If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.”

Ifs Trying Guy Values Company Cases Bigger Sake Size

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.”

Long Government Democrat Size Compromise Reducing Size Of Government

Author:Ted Cruz

“I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.”

Stills Matter Enough Stories Simple Size Genre Fortunate Good Story Format Tents

Author:Mark Canton

“Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.”

Thinking Company One Day Size

Author:Max Azria

“Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.”

Needs Should Fit Healthy Skins Size Dancer Competing Immune Vitamins Immune System One Size Fits All Zinc

Author:Anton du Beke

“Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.”

Author:Delta Burke

“I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.”

Looks Film Size

Author:Eric Bana

“The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.”

Long Real Differences Half Thirds Size Lists Restaurants Ingredients Cookbook

Author:Mario Batali

“A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.”

Want Directors Pressure Size Thrive Pearls Harbors

Author:Michael Bay

“All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.”

People Moving Acting Company Leader Economy Team Size Marketplace Great Leader Moving In

Author:Steve Ballmer

“I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.”

Next Bigger Size Buying Jeans

Author:Valerie Bertinelli

“Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.”

People Writing Important Book Fame Size Entertainment Publishing Writing A Book

Author:Aidan Chambers

“For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.”

Moments Universe Given Vision Instruments Size

Author:Albert Claude

“It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.”

Matter Moving Size

Author:Bryan Clay

“If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.”

Ifs Two Home Order Next Asks Half Eating Dollars Size Checks Meals Portions Next Day Wraps Stretching Server Eating Out Portion Sizes

Author:Cat Cora

“I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.”

People Thinking Wells Littles Might Faces Half Battle Bottom Size Your Face You Choose

Author:Courteney Cox

“We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.”

Needs Life Is Attention Figures Fit Discovery Size Pay Attention Olympian One Size Fits All

Author:David Agus

“The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.”

Made Body Today Fit Clothes Size Women's Bodies

Author:Debbie Allen